Kandi is a Chinese electric-vehicle and mobility company founded in 2002 in Jinhua, Zhejiang. It develops small electric passenger cars, utility vehicles, battery systems, motors, controllers, and battery-swap equipment, and later expands into electric off-road recreational vehicles. The company becomes publicly traded in the United States and is associated with urban microcars, short-range electric transport, and battery-swap infrastructure projects rather than with conventional mass-market automobiles. Its passenger-vehicle line includes compact…